DVD Burning Problem

In the past few weeks it has been hit or miss if my system would crash when I loaded a CD or DVD (blank or with data) into my Samsung TSST corp CDDVDW SH-S203P. When the system didn’t crash I was able to read/write without any problems.When it crashed today I forwarded the error report to MS & was advised that the problem was due to Pinnacle’s Instant Write (vobiw.sys) which had stopped working correctly & was no longer supported by Pinnacle. As Pinnacle’s web site has nothing on vobiw.sys & I could only find a thread on Instant Write failing during burning, I uninstalled the software.I can now load a CD or DVD (blank or with data) without the system crashing, access the data and use Nero 7 Essentials Back Up to write to a disk but I get a MS ‘Confirm Stream Loss’ error when I try to copy or drag a file to the DVD drive. As far as I can see this error is due to drives being formatted differently (FAT32/NTFS). I have confirmed that the ‘Enable CD recording on this drive’ box is ticked.I uninstalled & then reinstalled Nero 7, which came with my drive, but it has not solved the problem. I have confirmed that the drive firmware is up todate. I know that XP (SP3) needs 3rd party DVD burning software & thought that Nero 7 would provide this.I have the feeling that I’m unable to see the trees because of the woods & the solution is staring me in the face.

Many thanks for your responses.I know Nero 7 is old hat but I thought that I would give it a try as it came on the same disc as the DVD driver. In fact I ‘ve only ever used the Nero Lightscribe function. Having spent a considerable amount of time reading through DVD related threads, I can only blame old age for missing the reference to Ashampoo, which I have now installed after uninstalling Nero.I can burn docs, photos etc to DVD using Ashampoo, but I’m still unable to drag, copy or move anything to a DVD. The error now is ‘Problem Copying’ for which this forum has 1436 results & Google 209k which I’ll start trawling through. As Ashampoo works, I’m thinking that the problem is not the burning software but lies elsewhere.Again many thanks